The next one is up and it's a song that spent two weeks at #1.

25 – Don’t Wanna Go Home – Jason Derulo

2 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 76,581 / 60,316

#47 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 348,300

#23 on the countdown is a man who scored his first #1 in 2010 with his second. Don’t Wanna Go Home was released as the debut single from American sing Jason Derulo’s second album Future History. Famously sampling Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) by Harry Belafonte Don’t Wanna Go Home shot to #1 in July 2011 and spent two weeks at the summit, selling 76,581 in it’s first week on sale. Whilst another song yet to feature in this countdown was #2 both weeks this was at #1 the #3’s both weeks weren’t #1’s and for me both are far better than this, Calvin Harris ft Kelis with Bounce and Beyonce with Best Thing I Never Had. Around the globe Don’t Wanna Go Home found decent success reaching #5 in Australia, #8 in Ireland and #14 in America.

For me the song doesn’t do too much for me and he does have much better, I prefer follow up It Girl much more than this one.

Little Mix were not the aforementioned X Factor alumnus I had in mind but not too sad to see the back of that one! They grew so much on the show, with particularly breakout moments in 'E.T.' and 'Don't Let Go (Love)', but the winning single pick was ill-suited. I supported their win at the time but very quickly moved on from the song - not surprised they did too.

'Don't Wanna Go Home' hasn't aged particularly well. 'Show Me Love' has been done to death as a sample and the 'Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)' interpolation also feels quite tacky. However, his handling of Toto's 'Africa' in later single 'Fight For You' is worse, so at least that wasn't the one to reach #1. I couldn't remember what campaign these singles came from, so just looked it up and I see it was Future History, before Dua got in there with Future Nostalgia!

9 minutes ago, Jade said:

Little Mix were not the aforementioned X Factor alumnus I had in mind but not too sad to see the back of that one! They grew so much on the show, with particularly breakout moments in 'E.T.' and 'Don't Let Go (Love)', but the winning single pick was ill-suited. I supported their win at the time but very quickly moved on from the song - not surprised they did too.

'Don't Wanna Go Home' hasn't aged particularly well. 'Show Me Love' has been done to death as a sample and the 'Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)' interpolation also feels quite tacky. However, his handling of Toto's 'Africa' in later single 'Fight For You' is worse, so at least that wasn't the one to reach #1. I couldn't remember what campaign these singles came from, so just looked it up and I see it was Future History, before Dua got in there with Future Nostalgia!

Ah ok, I think I know the one you’re referring to now. 🙂

That Jason Derulo song is a VILE abomination.

No big losses there.

Cannonball was definitely an awful song choice for Little Mix. If only they got Impossible before James did.

Don’t Wanna Go Home is indeed an abomination.

Very poor track, just a bad idea all round of songs to sample/cover.

Wow, we really did just buy any old crap in the Club Banger era didn't we!

Best Thing I Never Had deserved No.1, such a classy ballad.

“Don’t Wanna Go Home” would probably be second last ahead of the finalists for me - just terrible all round. (I don’t like “Best Thing I Never Had” either and the lyrics are so clumsy, but “Bounce” is good.)

“Cannonball” is pretty poor - very laboured compared to the understated original.

As I said before the “When We Collide” cover is one of the more tolerable.

3 hours ago, Jessie Where said:

That Jason Derulo song is a VILE abomination.

I never rated Jason Derulo very highly myself but I think this song has to be his worst.

And that track he sampled has been used so many times.

Edited June 19Jun 19 by Charlielargepotatoes

Wow, I’d completely forgotten about Don’t Wanna Go Home existed, I think my memory must have been in denial. What an awful song, terrible sample/interpolation and boring at the same time, quite an achievement.

Utterly awful track, even by Jason Derulo's low standards, complete mess of a song, no angle for ironic appreciation, at least with 'Fight For You' its base is desecrating a song that I love and is fairly resistant to being murdered in that 'Africa' is enjoyable in most forms, the songs sampled here just make the whole thing feel tired.

Think that one might actually be bottom for me, though it might just edge out the X Factor Finalists.

Thought the 'Cannonball' cover was nice enough at the time and got the CD naturally following the final but glad it's not the direction they ended up going in and it has worked out tremendously for them from 'Wings' onwards.

Another crap Jason Derulo song and overdone song to sample too there, definitely be a few spots lower for me.

I didn’t realise this Jason Derulo song was so disliked.

Another song that spent just the one week at top will drop soon.

24 – Loca People – Sak Noel

1 Week at #1 / Weekly Sales – 75,161

#82 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 256,600

Spanish DJ Sak Noel, real name Issac Mahmood Noell burst on to the European dance scene in 2011 when his single Loca People debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, selling 75,161 copies in its opening week. It was also one of six songs that kept Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger stuck at #2, this time it was denied by just under 2,100 copies. I found the vocals on this song to be quite forgettable but rather enjoyed the instrumental of the song, which when balancing it out leaves it finishing around here. It didn’t hit me in the way that some of the other songs in this countdown did and I guess as it wasn’t released in Australia I don’t really have an memories or connection with this song. It probably didn’t help that this wouldn’t have been the type of song I’d have tried to discover back in 2011 either. There’s still a few other dance #1’s from 2011 still to come that I prefer to this one.

Dont remember the Derulo song 😲Obv I know Banana Boat Song, and love Harry Belafonte, but this seems like a dance-by-numbers as I play it. Nice production but nothing much to it. So what did I make of it at the time? I have no idea - number 19, it turns out, so the beats and production seduced me along with the Harry B reference but it's not in any way stuck in my mind.

Sak Noel is another that has not stayed in my memory, but the title alone annoys me and it's quite repetetive in beats and melody and lyrics. Out of your head in a club it prob sounds better. Johnny? Talking to me? No habla Espanol, Perdon.... I didnt bother to chart this, so way down the list for me.

'Loca People' is fun I suppose, if relatively pointless. I'm pretty familiar with it, but I don't believe I've ever once listened to it out of choice.

Dont wanna go home is meh Next

Loca people on the hand was a bop for its time

Loca People is just a big dumb fun dance record, what’s not to like!

For Derulo his use of cheap samples outguetta's Guetta! I preferred it to the likes of Solo - more upbeat.

I quite liked Loca People but yeah more a meme song.